I want to be an actor,
To grapple with their minds
I want to be a dancer
To tiptoe on the skies
I want to be a writer
and scribble last goodbye's
I want to be a comic,
You'll laugh a thousand lies
I'll spin on the spinning chair,
round and round and . . .
Clasping to the belt
Hanging on the top bed bunk
I pass the bed and the door
Che and the floor.
Is it really a bunk bed?
There's not really a bottom bunk.
Just me
And my clothes
And my one gig notepad.
My head's beginning to rebel.
Opposite directions.
Disorientation.
Should I spin so violently?
when I could be philosophising
or emphasising
or . . .
What an idiot.
I'll spin on the spinning chair,
round and round and stop.
I want to be an Actor, but
I don't think I can speak.
I want to be a dancer, but
I don't have the mystique.
I want to be a writer, but
My writing is ignored.
I want to be a comic,
But my humour is abbhored.
Unwind the spinning chair.
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